Myrobalan Therapeutics Inc. has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the ALS Association to support the advancement of its colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) inhibitor for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Vandria SA has been awarded two grants totaling €3.8M (US$4.1M) from Innosuisse and Eurostars to support its two lead drug candidates addressing CNS and muscle diseases, respectively.
Stroke is the main neurologic cause of global morbidity and mortality with a global prevalence of more than 100 million last year. Under neuropathological conditions such as excitotoxicity associated with stroke, the pro-glycolytic enzyme 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase-3 (PFKFB3) enhances glucose consumption which leads to redox stress and apoptotic neuronal death.
Cantabio Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been awarded a grant by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to support the development of a cell-penetrant DJ-1 protein replacement therapeutic candidate for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
At the ongoing WORLDSymposium meeting in San Diego, Gain Therapeutics Inc. presented preclinical data on the company’s GCase enhancer GT-02287 as a potential approach to rescue motor function in Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Researchers from Texas A&M University System have detailed the development and characterization of a novel pediatric rat model of organophosphate (OP)-induced status epilepticus (SE).
It is well known that protein tau forms aggregates in the brain in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that are also known as tauopathies. Accumulation of protein tau in the brain leads to the cell toxicity and promotes the loss of synaptic plasticity, which in turn causes memory loss. As reported on Feb. 1, 2024, in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, assistant professor Tara Tracy and her research team from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have discovered a protein in the brain that could restore this damage induced by protein tau.